This place gets that five star bump, not because it's some high class establishment where we found something we've never had before. It gets the bump because we flew in at midnight and we're looking for something quick, OK or better and easy to eat. White castle to the rescue! White Castle is the fast food equivalent of waffle house, the burger equivalent to Bojangles chicken, and the American equivalent of Tim Hortons. I will admit that I have not been to a Tim Hortons in many years, but I saw a video a couple years ago where somebody took a dump in their hand and threw it at someone there. So yeah, it's on the same level. White Castle seems that it's a step up from that specific Tim Hortons! But I digress. We had three very hungry and tired children who needed sustenance quickly. The woman that we talked with first on the speaker and then at the window was incredibly polite, and incredibly patient for what I can only assume was a long shift, every single night. We ended up with something like eight cheeseburgers, a couple chicken sandwiches and a fish sandwich as there was the desire to create a burger within the car. We created the Midwest equivalent of the land air and sea.... The water, plains and sky - a magical concoction that includes a cheeseburger, a chicken patty and a fish patty. Well, it's debatable whether any of these things have actually been to the places that are described in the name of the Burger, we were pretty stoked to get to try it. Would we order it again? Probably not. It ends up the fish sandwiches from a white castle. Outside of Chicago are just OK. That said, the burgers here are always absolutely top-notch! When I want meat, cheese and only have the time to take two bites, this is the spot! It's White Castle, you know what you're getting, and our experience here was a very good one, primarily because of the burgers and because of the very nice lady that was helping us that very early Saturday morning read more

White Castle - Fast Food Near Me - Aurora, Illinois

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Check your receipt at this location. The older black Woman rounds up without asking to donate to something for animals. She did it twice to me in a 2 week period. The first time I didn't notice until after I left. The second time we asked and she said "oh it's to donate". My husband said, I never wanted to donate. She said oh! (She wasn't expecting us to check our receipt which tells me she gets away with this a lot). We left it alone and did a survey and we never heard back. All these white castles shutting down and yall trying to steal at this location. I know she gets some type of incentive to round up. read more

We stopped by this location on our way to Chicago. We grabbed a huge 30 pack of burgers to split between our family. Looking at the interior of the restaurant tables were dirty, and the drink station needed to be touched up. We did receive our food very quickly so there's no issues about that. Overall, the storages looked rundown I would say, but the employees were nice and prompt. read more

The Drive to Hollywood Casino Aurora from Chicago late at night is a long, lonely, dark stretch of road heavily patrolled by police because it is tough not to want to speed on over to Galena and Stolp. Just before that on 31, out of nowhere, just like the movie (Harold and Kumar) the majestic lights of this place pops up. This place offers 24/7 drive thru. The only painful part of eating here is the soul crushing drive thru line at 3am when only hungry gambling degenerates and late night snack fiends need a slider fix that needs to be addressed. I was the latter; my buddy driving was the former. For not much, was able to buy a few sliders with fries and a drink and I was in heaven. Keep in mind, I am from California so when I see this establishment, I hear that joyous music of pure satisfaction when the order is placed in my hands! Cheese sliders with fries and drink is around $8-9. Tastes best hot out of the bag. The staff at the Aurora White Castle are the most lovingest Fast Food Angels you could ever counter. The drive thru wait at 3am on a Sunday? With about 7-8 vehicles ahead of me? 25 minutes. But it was worth the wait and I'd do it again. read more

White Castle - When you find one unexpectedly, it's a heavenly vibe - Fast Food Near Me - Aurora, Illinois

To long in drive up. Missed a order fries, missed a order of fish nibbles Not going back read more

One of the few White Castles left in the area. Home of the origin sliders , those tiny square burgers often bought by the sack or Crave Box. Little square burgers on a bun with grilled onions and a pickle packed in a box, like Lego's that connect together. Often purchased with fries, onion rings with a soda or a shake. In a misguided youth often consumed in the wee hours of the night after much revelry and the distinctive possibility of adult beverages being consumed as well. But I digress..... While not to the level of a Michelin Starred Restaurant, it's often a rite of passage.... that when one reminisces prompts a visit and a sack of sliders to go. read more

Being a Chicago guy, with a penchant for cocktails, White Castle has loomed large in my journey. Mostly late at night. In my dotage, I'm not the wild guy I used to be, and WC has become a guilty pleasure for the Wife and I (now always sober), mostly early in the afternoon. I had always heard of the transformation of WC on Valentine's day with a Maitre D', Waiters, and tableside service, but had never been. I try to surprise my lovely Wife when I can, and this year (as part of our Silver Anniversary) I thought we'd finally try the WC gambit. Well... There wasn't the transformation of the WC environs I expected-there were a few el cheapo decorations hanging from the ceiling, and red paper "tablecloths" on the booths. The "Maitre D'" was one of the regular employees, and she had a shitty attitude. We got seated and looked at the menu printed on the placemat. You'd think they'd do something clever, but there wasn't. We made the joke our order of "Shrimp Nibblers" and Sliders was "Surf and Turf". The waitress (who must have been the owners wife) laughed with us over that. In the end-it was a regular visit to WC, except for a cheap tablecloth and we didn't have to go to the counter. The staff had an attitude, kinda neutering the kitschy joy I had hoped for. Wife and I had fun making fun of the dour employees who seemed like they were insulted with the whole thing. Perhaps at other WC stores, they had fun with it, but not at this one. It won't put us off WC, but we won't be back for Valentine's day, unless its at the Drive-Thru... read more

It took 10 minutes for them to notice that we were even there.The bbq powdered chicken rings were awful I only ate one and I threw the thing away. The mozzarella sticks were really good. Sliders great as usual. The loaded fries were great. read more

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This is the most disgusting and dysfunctional fast food restaurant I have ever seen. Right after opening, the floor is filthy, everything is dirty, the floor looks like it hasn't seen water in months. Every order they screw up and get wrong. You place an order on the app for pickup in 20 minutes get there and they haven't even started making the order. Needless to say the employees here aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer either. read more

WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING IN THERE?!? I have recently had the miss fortune of coming here in the middle of the night on two occasions this month. The drive thru wait is UNREAL!!! 1 was almost a 1 hour wait!!! 1HOUR!! For about 8-9 cars. Another was a 30+ min wait for 6-7 cars... I don't even know what to say. Each time I counted at least 3 employees? I got to the window last night and saw my bags on the table but it took about 5 min to check the receipt and give me the bag??? My advice, pay someone good money to get in this store and get it functional. In my two waits you had at least 10-15 drive offs... even if you paid $30 an hour you would make your money back in not loosing Orders. The staff has been nice tho... read more

The absolute worst! You try to get food early in the morning because everything else is closed.., you are better off going home at 2am to cook. They take 1 order at a time in the drive thru., absolutely ridiculous. read more

Went thru the drive up and ordered a 20 box of reg hamburgers ,got home to find almost half were just shoved into the containers all squashed up. Ashamed to add to our football Sunday gathering. read more

The food was warm. My fries tasted like chicken. Maybe they need to change their oil. The floors were filthy, and the bathrooms were only a step up from there. The management lacked attention to customer detail or just plain attention to the customer. We walked in and stood in front of the register and was NOT even greeted for 5 minutes even though they were there chatting amongst themselves. A quick "Hello, we will be with you in a moment" would have sufficed. We should have left with the lack of interaction and not ever placed an order. No shakes either‍ read more

I've been in the drive-thru for over 20 minutes, with 2 cars in front of me. Get some more help at night, please. It's 10 minutes past eleven and I'm still starving. Nope never again. Not here! Not in that drive-thru at night at least. read more

Sometimes, it's what I crave. They have good sliders, fast and easy. They're small, so I would need about 4 of them for a meal. They run about $0.77 - $2.79. The most expensive one is the chicken and waffle slider, which is pretty delicious. For Valentine's day each year, you can make a reservation for dinner. This was the first year that you could actually make your reservation through OpenTables, which I thought was pretty neat. They decorate the restaurant and have table service. Food prices are still the same, but you'll have to splurge on a tip. ....| \ _ , , , - - , , _ , .../ , ` . - ' ` ' . _ \ - ; ; ; , _ ..| , a - ) ) _ . ; . ( ` - ` - ' - ' ' - - - ' ' ( _ / . _ ) - ' ( _ \ _ ) 2018 read more

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First off I'm a Chicago boy and WC was where we went after a night of adult beverages on the town so I'm a big fan because I can't get them where live now. WC is best described in my experience, you either love them or hate them because there is no in between for people I talk to. It's a steamed slider and not fried on a bed of onions which gives them their unique flavor, the steamed onion flavor is what I love about them. It's tasty steamed/soft slider that I like in one of two ways and all I ever have, the bacon cheeseburger or the jalapeño cheeseburger and that's it, no frys etc. Overall I'm a fan and I will always be because of the uniqueness and flavor of the original slider so I will keep getting them when I'm around one and the frozen store verision is just not the same. read more

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Charisse gave the best customer service. I have experience and I will continue to return here instead of other fast food restaurants nearby because she was that amazing. read more

Absolutely RUDE manager or shift supervisor who helped me today, well actually did not help me but gave extremely poor customer service with a horrible attitude. She looked so unhappy and took it out on the customer. I was excited to take my daughter there because White Castle and a slider was a part of my childhood and she absolutely ruined it.. then on top of that whoever else was working back in the kitchen had two friends stand at the counter being extremely annoying carrying on a conversation yelling from the back to friends at the counter. Maybe the manager or shift supervisor would not be so rude if her employees wouldn't have friends hanging out at the counter distracting them from there job and the drive through would not be stacked up 15 cars deep. The sanitary training here is also horrible employees would take off there disposable gloves do a task and then put the same gloves back on. Safe sanitary food handling states that if gloves are taken off hands must be washed and a new pair of gloves put on. Not the case here. Also saw employee handle money with food service gloves on then go back to preparing food. read more

DO NOT COME HERE. I REPEAT DO NOT COME HERE. SERVICE IS AWFUL. WAIT TIME IS HORRIBLE. Showed up at 6:10pm at the drive-thru, paid at 6:23pm and then got my food at 6:47pm. And the employee gave us the box with sauce and onions all over the box. We had to give it back to him and ask him to wipe the box. Terrible. I don't understand how this restaurant do not have these burgers ready in hand. Management need to fix this. I don't think I will ever come back to this location. Fast food should be fast not this 40 mins wait. read more

We noticed this as we were driving to the area, and saw their 10 White Castle hamburgers for $8 deal, so we had to stop in. First off, this place does White Castle Hamburgers RIGHT. They came HOT and FRESH off the grill, the onions were tasty, and the pickle slices were fresh! Even the fries were good. The drinks were HUGE - we ordered mediums and got 24 ounces! Due to COVID, no seating was available so we ate in the car. Delicious. I agree with others, either you love these or you don't. We do, and this was a good visit! read more

Staff is always friendly, food is cooked fresh or fresh as can be, a slow line but worth it in a crunch.

INTENTIONALLY SLOW SERVICE! The employees will not take your order at the box until they have served the customer in front of you. 1 car orders, then those burgers are cooked, assembled, packaged, paid for and then served, AND THEN they take the next cars order. The employees also try to dissuade you from ordering by saying "We ain't got no burger right now so it's gonna take a while". When asked what they mean by they don't have burgers they responded "We ain't got any cooking on the grill right now" read more

30 minutes in the drive through. Ugh. Not sure what the issue is, but killed my evening. Should have left, but already paid.

Slowest drive through ever, I guess that's what happens when you get paid by the hour

If you're ever in town you want something quick a little bitty bite or even a whole case stop here the atmosphere is great the customer service is very very highly recommended everyone had a happy smile on their face and the food was off the chart read more

Slowest service ever. I should've known better for pulling into this place knowing they don't give you your food, let alone take you're order in a timely manner. Gave it a try anyway with only 2 people ahead of me. I sat there for almost 10 min waiting for them to take my order. The finally apologize for the wait, I place my order, and sit and wait another 13 min, before me, and the people behind me pull off and leave. I drove across the street, to Taco Bell, and got food in less that 4 min. I started to head home, looked over at the White Castle drive thru and low and behold, the same dude that was in front of me was still sitting at the window waiting. This White Castle is notorious for wait times, the staff doesn't seem to give a crap, no sense of urgency and the line kept piling up with people. Poor basterds are probably still sitting there as I type this. This is by far the worst White Castle. They need a crew whose willing to do their job, instead of the clowns they employ now. read more

I was in line 20 mins because line wasn't moving, decided to come in and no one acknowledged me at all. Not even the Manager who came out the back to see what was going on. Very poor customer service. Never will I be back and will tell ppl in my column and social media not to come! read more

Had a craving , pulled up at the speaker waited about five minutes before anyone said anything, I placed the order and I pulled around I noticed that the car that had moved up before me was still in the same area , I left the line went to McDonald's down the street orders my food got my food on my way back , the cars that where in front of me had not moved and the one behind me was still waiting at the speaker , whoever owns or manages this place needs to fix it . read more

19 minutes in line waiting for #1 with a small coke! 8 minutes just at the window waiting! She apologized for the long wait and I parked in the lot. Everything was cold and hard! $9.00 fir cold, tasteless food! Never again! read more

Yo man when I first drove up to Whitecastle I was like boy this is giving me such a bad vibe. I decided I'd go through the drive-through which was pretty wack to be honest. The people there were slow like turtles were faster. It was so slow that when they gave us a bag it was wet. Grease covered the bag and like man I like grease but this grease was excessive to be honest bro. I ordered two sets of 12 chicken rings, 3 smoothies, and two large fries. The bag that they gave me was greasy but it said bold move and a bold move they did make. they cheated me out of three chicken rings. I know I'm not the smartest but two sets of 12 is 24 NOT 21! The smoothies weren't even blended bro they were chunky like my girlfriend. White Castle more like grease castle. read more

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I'm writing this review not to slam this location, but in hopes that management actually does something to improve things. With all the other White Castles in the area closing up, I'd really like to see this one figure out a way to stick around but holy COW is everything about the Aurora White Castle bad. I almost never go here, as someone who absolutely loves White Castle because I know it doesn't matter what time of day I go, there will be a half hour wait in the drive through. Not because there's a ton of cars and the line is out to the street, but because of how slow they are to make food. I've tried going inside instead, figuring maybe the drive through is just weirdly bottlenecked and instead of only dealing with a massive wait you also have to stand around inside of their mind-blowingly dirty dining area, while looking back into the kitchen that's often so grimy it makes you wonder if you even want to eat the food they're about to serve you at all. Good luck if you end up needing to use the restroom while you're there, as it's usually more destroyed than a truck stop toilet. MANAGEMENT: PLEASE get people who actually care about working here. Pay them more if you have to. This restaurant, like all the other locations, is on a fast track to becoming yet another Mattress Firm if you can't turn things around to get folks like me, who love White Castle and drive by all the time, to stop in. I remember going to White Castle as a kid and the place being cleaner than a hospital, and your food coming out super fast and piping hot. What happened? I even stopped bringing people from out of town here. It's straight up embarrassing to have friends who want to see what these White Castle burgers are that I talk about loving so much, only to have what amounts to an experience so terrible that if it was revealed that this location is actually just an elaborate hoax and the set of some kind of hidden camera show, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. read more

This spot had terrible customer service, awfully rude manager, doors were locked so we went to the line and waited about half an hour and then when we got to the speaker, they told us to come in read more

Think about the longest time you've ever waited in a fast food line, and then triple that. I waited literally 37 mins for a single cheeseburger. What are you doing in there? read more

I've ordered from this spot 4 times in the past few months and they've gotten the order wrong 3 times. I understand times are rough and I try to support local businesses but a 25% success rate is a bit ridiculous. read more

Ordered two impossible burgers with American cheese the girl with the hanging lashes that I thought was going to go in my burger scraped off the cheddar and puts American on top of it.They also was acting like they never steemed a burger before they did my four times and my burgers dried out.This place is unsanitary and unprofessional I was so discussted with the burgers I drove off.My daughters 4 cheese burgers were dry as well.The girl comes to the window with her eyelashes dangling and says what you mean by steaming.This was so sad I left.You can see by the picture that the dark yellow is the cheddar they scrapped off and the American is just placed on top.This was so ghetto and nasty yuck! read more

White Castle - Fast Food Near Me - Aurora, Illinois

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I wish I could give it 0 stars worst drive thru experience you will ever have I waited like 50 min until I gave up and was not even Hungry anymore they take one order at a time like you order move up and pay and wait for your order meanwhile the car behind you is waiting in the speaker and they will not take your order until the other person is done there can be 2 or 3 cars and you will still be waiting anywhere from 35 to 55 min worst white castle open 24hrs is a joke they do like 3 to 5 orders in that one hour management is doing a horrible job with this location learned my lesson never ever going here again read more

Panhandler standing outside the restaurant doors. Greeted by a manager when we walked into an empty store, one car in the drive through. Someone had ordered a 30 slider box so I understood why it took 5 minutes to have our order taken. Took about 7 minutes to get our order, the impossible sliders were delicious and made fresh, but I was disappointed with barely warm fries. Pretty poor hand washing, as I saw none. I was observing the kitchen while I waited and ate. You're supposed to change your gloves every time you touch an unsanitary surface, and you must wash your hands every time gloves are changed. Here's what I noticed: manager went straight to make our food from using the cash register. Lady working the fryer and drive through register, touched the tops of mozzarella sticks and fries with bare unwashed hands while putting them into to-go bags for the drive through. read more

TERRIBLE SERVICE !!!!! Also ...THEY SOMEHOW NEVER GET MULTIPLE ORDERS AT ONCE . Thank the lord im starting my trucking job monday !!!!! FK this place !!!!! ..... and the trolling will soon start !!!!! Let the force be with ya 1 hr and only one out of two orders lmao . read more

If I could give zero I would. The wait time in the drive thru is horrible. How do you do business like this? Don say "sorry for the wait" that's every time I come. This place is sad. It's fast food and it's almost been 30 minutes now. Wtf read more

Had a craving and stopped by the drive thru at dinner time. Only 2 cars ahead of me which I guess should have been my first clue. Placed my order and waited.................................. first car got their order, moved up and waited .................................................. Second car got their order. Moved up to window, Paid and waited................................................................................ seriously I was in the drive thru for over 45 minutes. Girl hands out my order (10) and says sorry for the wait. Closes the window and gone. by the time I got to my house, they burgers were hard, like they had been microwaved to death! WTH!. Guess if I get a craving again I better be prepared for a road trip into Chicago to get a GOOD slider. read more